{"id":411,"date":"2012-04-01T18:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T18:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=411"},"modified":"2012-04-01T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T18:40:31","slug":"gor-mahia-readying-for-mathare-clash-with-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-readying-for-mathare-clash-with-friendlies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia readying for Mathare Clash with friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/makori-mathare-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kogalo will face off against Mathare United on Wednesday in the next Kenya Premier League match. The match will be played at City Stadium which Gor Mahia finally secured amid some difficulty. As Gor Mahia had been banned from Nyayo stadium, their only option was City stadium which is difficult to book on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>Mathare has been a difficult team to beat in the last few years.  A match against them usually ends in a draw. But Mathare too have been struggling since the departure of coach Salim Ali to Sofapaka.  New Coach Zdrvako Logarusic appears to have hit the ground running. No sooner had he arrived in Nairobi did he immediately take the players through their paces on Friday. He noted some weaknesses which he hopes to fix.He noted the lack of proper psychological approach which has also been noted by many fans. Kogalo players seem to give up on certain occassions. He also noted the lack of player movement which would explain why despite dominating posession, Kogalo never seem to create clear cut chances.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0 had a chance to test his new strategies when Gor Mahia played a friendly against Embakasi combined on Sunday at City stadium. The game was won 9-0. This came after Kogalo won 6-0 against Finlays in another friendly. Against Embakasi, goals came via Baldwin Ngwa (2), Ibrahim Kitawi (2) Moses Otieno, Dan Makori, Demonde Selenga, Rama Salim and John Kiplangat.<\/p>\n<p>Fans hope that this is a sign that the goal drought is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-readying-for-mathare-clash-with-friendlies\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kogalo will face off against Mathare United on Wednesday in the next Kenya Premier League match. The match will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}